@ray Butler, no that’s the mental comprehension of nothing. Blankness, blackness, darkness, emptiness. It’s beyond the brain and what you think nothing to be. If you’re brain was taken out, would you still have any existence or awareness? Awareness is not something produced by the brain from what I’ve experienced. You can’t explain or think your way into it… and congrats on your experience man. I really could care less what you can experience and I’m unaware of or whatever. Think what you want, this argument is pointless because again it’s not something I can even describe so I’m not sure why I’m trying. I really have to stop getting into petty arguments on this site. Nothing good comes out of them. The real information comes when you stop pondering and thinking all the time and developing theories.

@ray Butler, yes so nothingness isn’t experienced when you’re not aware. And when you’re thinking about how you weren’t aware before, you are not truly aware, you’re just more aware than you were before. And to think that you weren’t aware in the past is a thought, which is not awareness.

Even a simple cell has a rudimentary awareness, so yes my body retains awareness, atoms and energy have compulsion, but the imagination is neither of these things, the imagination is not even consciousness so it can exit existence, exit the universe because it is not subjected to the laws of this universe, it is something beyond everything else, the image of God.

But you are right, an impression of nothingness is about as close as we come to experiencing or being aware of nothingness, but it is enough to allow us to imagine nothingness, and that is how you experience nothingness.

If you remember the first moment you came into existence you would know how you felt the moment you realized that moments before…you didn’t exist. Even when you have experienced nothing else you know that not existing was the worst possible state and that fear remains the basis for everything you are, even though moments later you first experienced love.